...so replace MAKEUP TIPS with whatever topic you need to find a discussion on, separating the words with a +. (You can bookmark the link for easy retrieval, and actually you don't have to type your search phrase in the URL each time, just change the search phrase on the page the link opens to whatever you want.)

If you want just forums, then you need to click on "More" at the end of the search filters to see the menu where "Discussions" used to be and select "Search Tools" at the bottom. That will add a menu at the top right under where "Web" "Images" etc search filter options appear and one of the choices will be "Discussions" with a dropdown menu that has the options "Forums" or "Q&A".

Google's meddling is also why the Inbox on Youtube is so hidden you have to jump several hoops to find it.

I have never used that feature. I didn't even know it existed until you mentioned it in this thread and then I read about it on another blog and someone provided that link in the comments so I saved it and thought I'd pass it on. As much as I use Google, and have even used the More drop-down menu, I never noticed "Discussions" was one of the choices.

On a forum I used to frequent, when the search feature didn't work well, I learned you could use regular Google to search within the forum by typing a string like the one below in the search window:

forum:essentialdayspa.com face+exercises/Nonie aka AD

...and it would show you threads on face exercises in which Nonie had posted in on the EDS forum.

So that is all I knew to use as far as specifically looking for discussions was concerned.

I found EDS by doing a search for "face exercises" which happens to be my all-time favorite topic.

You can preset many search tools/filters by appending parameters to the Search URL.
Searching from https://www.google.com/webhp?tbm=dsc will filter results to Discussions as default.
So it looks like the functionality is still supported.

Edit: Opening Search tools on the ensuing results page allows the Discussions to be further filtered.

Boardreader.com isn't as good as Google's Discussion Search---but it's something.

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Mon Nov 19, 2018 5:57 pm

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